Dan Quinn is spokesman for the Texas Freedom Network in Austin, a statewide, nonprofit, nonpartisan alliance that includes more than 7,500 religious and community leaders concerned about the “growing social and political influence of religious political extremists.” The group has been at the forefront of trying to prevent religious conservatives from controlling the content in school textbooks […]

J. Kerby Anderson is president of Probe Ministries in Richardson, Texas, which aims to bring biblical teachings into American public life, including the schools.

Mark Chancey is associate professor of religious studies at Southern Methodist University in Dallas who has written about teaching the Bible in public schools.

The Texas Freedom Network offers a timeline of the battle regarding censorship of school textbooks in Texas.

Read a July 21, 2004, MSNBC.com article on the sex education textbook debate in Texas.

Read a Nov. 6, 2004, Dallas Morning News story posted by the Seattle Times about the outcome of the Texas vote.

Joerg Rieger is a professor of constructive theology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. He is an expert on mainline Protestant denominations and says some of those churches, while they do not teach a prosperity gospel, share a “prosperity mentality” when they preach that “good things happen to good people.”

Anthony B. Pinn is a professor of humanities and religious studies at Rice University in Houston. He has been critical of the prosperity gospel preached in some Black megachurches for its lack of emphasis on community service and charity. He is the author of Why, Lord?: Suffering and Evil in Black Theology and editor of Redemptive Suffering: a […]

Frederick Haynes III is the senior pastor of Friendship-West Baptist Church in Dallas. He helped organize a conference for African American pastors concerned about the spread and use of the prosperity gospel, especially among African Americans.